Smartphone sales will exceed 1.5 billion units per year by 2016.
Last year smartphone sales blew past the number of PCs sold, and they’ll be nearly twice PC sales this year, analyst Alex Cocotas of BI Intelligence predicts.
Study: Still too much sugar in kids’ diets
Most of that sweet fare is coming from home.
In recent years, America’s intake of sugary foods and drinks has dropped, but kids in the U.S. are still consuming too much, government researchers say.
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Is the internet ruining or improving today’s teens: Study
95% of teens are online.
Today’s teenagers are growing up in an unprecedented environment of hyper-inter-connectivity. According to recent data collected by the Pew Internet Project, 95% of teens 12 to 17 are online, 76% use social networking sites and 77% have cellphones.
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Hottest social networking countries around the world
There are 1.2 billion social networking users worldwide.
U.S.-based social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter usually get most of the publicity, but eMarketer predicts that the worldwide social networking phenomenon will encompass nearly 1.5 billion internet users by the end of this year.
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Smarter Cart – Whole Foods tries out Kinect-powered shopping carts
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Your future shopping trips to Whole Foods may include a shopping cart that can follow you around the store, based on a recent product demonstration by Microsoft. The software giant was showing off a Kinect-powered shopping cart that can identify and talk to you, follow you around the store, scan items as you shop, and even put you through an automated checkout.
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Rich people more likely to be dishonest: study
Study reveals rich people are more likely to cheat or behave badly.
While the poor might seem to have the most reason to cheat and steal, a new study shows that the rich are more likely to be dishonest.
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Macabre roller coaster that will thrill you… then kill you
The ride looks like an ordinary roller coaster – but is designed to kill.
A Lithuanian engineer, Julijonas Urbonas, has come up with macabre roller coaster concept where passengers are thrilled and then ‘killed’. (Pics)
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Edible silk sensors let you know if your food is spoiled
Sensors pick up the change when a fruit ripens or rots.
Have you ever taken a big gulp of milk only to find out then that the milk is sour.? A new technology will let you simply wave your phone over it–or any food–to get a verdict on whether it’s still edible.
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Man ‘grows’ six inches taller through surgery
Apotheosis is one of a “growing” number of men pursuing limb-lengthening procedures for cosmetic reasons.
Apotheosis, at five foot, six inches, was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it.
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Google wants to hire engineers to test its self-driving cars
Google’s self-driving car
Google wants to hire engineers to design and test the self-driving cars it’s been working on. Check out some of the new job listings Google has posted in the last couple weeks:
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WikiCells – edible food containers
Edible food containers.
Harvard University’s Wyss Institute’s Dr. David Edwards is the man behind the controversial (as in, the FDA plans to investigate its safety) breathable caffeine and other vitamins, has been working on a new futuristic food item: edible containers. They’ve already created tomato containers with gazpacho inside, among other treats.
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Hawaiians have the highest sense of well-being: survey
Understanding well-being is important because it has such strong influence on the choices we make.
Hawaii comes out on top in a new ranking of which state’s residents have the best sense of overall well-being, based on physical health, happiness, job satisfaction and other factors that affect quality of life.
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